New DNC boss also bashed Sanders in leaked emails

Donna Brazile, the longtime strategist tapped to take over the Democratic National Committee, may have her own set of problems as she scrambles to unite the party following the explosive email scandal that led to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s resignation as chairwoman.

The party is in turmoil at the start of their national convention after leaked emails indicating an anti-Bernie Sanders bias inside the operation inflamed the left. But it turns out the leaked emails also show Brazile mocking Sanders.

“I saw it this am. How stupid. Don't know how to respond to Bernie anymore,” Brazile wrote.

In another email released by WikiLeaks, Brazile declined a Washington Post interview request two months ago because she was worried what she might say about Sanders’ campaign.

“I have no intentions of touching this,” Brazile wrote to several DNC operatives on May 13. “Why? Because I will cuss out the Sanders camp!”

The Post reporter, Abby Phillip, had requested to speak with Brazile to get her thoughts on “this fight between the Sanders camp and DNC over adequate representation on the platform committee and others ahead of the convention.”

So far, though, Brazile has avoided the heavy media spotlight and ire from Sanders supporters that continued to trail Wasserman Schultz Monday morning. As Wasserman Schultz explained her new role in the party – campaigning for Hillary Clinton from now to November – she faced taunts of “shame” from apparent Sanders supporters.

Brazile, along with Clinton officials, pushed back on allegations that the primary process was rigged all along.

“The Democratic Party, we have a very open process,” she said, while claiming the emails were hacked and “selectively leaked.”